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Episode 290 of “The Sports Experience Podcast” is here & we're continuing our block on some of the NFL's best postseason games of all time.In this episode we're discussing the 1983 NFC Championship between the Washington Redskins and the San Francisco 49ers.Expectations were high for a game which featured the Super Bowl champions from the previous two seasons.Washington dominated the first half of play with their defense, and led San Francisco 7-0 at half time.The lead could have been bigger had kicker Mark Moseley not had an off day.Washington took a commanding 21-0 lead by the time the third quarter ended thanks to a touchdown run by John Riggins and touchdown catch by “Downtown” Charlie Brown.At that point, all appeared lost for the 49ers until Joe Montana led a furious comeback. In just over eight minutes, Montana threw three touchdown passes to tie the game with 7:08 to play.Washington then went on a drive which lasted 6:12, and were assisted by two controversial penalties by San Francisco's Eric Wright and Ronnie Lott.It all came down to Moseley, who had missed four field goals in the game, to make a 25 yard field goal to put the Redskins ahead 24-21. Moseley drilled the kick and Washington was off to Super Bowl XVIII in Tampa.Connect with us on Instagram!Chris Quinn: @cquinncomedyDominic DiTolla: @ditolladominicProducer: @ty_englestudioInstagram: @thesportsexperiencepodcastIf you enjoy this podcast, please help support us @:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-sports-experience-pod/support#sportspodcast#comedypodcast #washingtonredskins#sanfranciscofortyniners#nflplayoffs

The stage is set as the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles are set to meet at Super Bowl LIX. Oddsmakers have the Chiefs tabbed as 1.5-point favorites and a total of 49.5 as of Monday, January 27th. Today on the show, Ninja, Tony Farmer and Jason Anik break down their thoughts on the matchup and what the numbers look like at the sportsbook. Looking for the best place to bet NFL? https://www.oddsshark.com/nfl/sites Looking For A New Sportsbook? Here are your best options: ***NEW UPDATE*** FanDuel (Bet $5, Get $200 In Bonus Bets) https://www.oddsshark.com/sites/all/links/fanduel.php BetMGM (Deposit $10 Get $200 In Bonus Bets) https://www.oddsshark.com/sites/all/links/betmgm.php Caesars (Bet $1, Double Your Winnings x10!) https://www.oddsshark.com/sites/all/links/caesars.php Bet365 (First Bet Safety Net Bonus Bets of up to $1000) https://www.oddsshark.com/sites/all/links/bet365.php The guys will break down their thoughts on Conference Championship Sunday as well. We saw the Eagles have a dream scenario in the NFC Championship game as the absolutely steamrolled the Washington Commanders. Was it the perfect Sunday for Philly? And how long until we see a return to these heights for Jayden Daniels and this upstart Commanders team? Over in the AFC, we got referee controversies, a tight end with a bad game and Patrick Mahomes winning another playoff game by razor-thin margins. The guys look back and look forward and break down everything you need to know ahead of Super Bowl Sunday!

Howie Long is in studio! The Hall of Famer, Super Bowl Champion, and Raider legend is with us to relive Super Bowl XVIII. Howie joins us on the couch (2:23). We go back to January of 1984 (1:07:56). We look back at these rosters (1:20:07). We dive into the game (1:39:41). We score it (2:32:50). We wrap it up with a brand new segment (2:44:36). Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In our first show since Super Bowl XVIII, Lucy Burdge and Brandon Sprague discuss last week's Super Bowl, that featured the Chiefs beating the 49ers in an Overtime Classic. As a 49ers fan, Sprague breaks down where exactly he would put the blame and more! Then, an early look at the big game odds for next season and how to answer a series of questions when it comes to betting NFL futures for next season. The show wraps with how we bet NBA All Star Weekend, our opinions on the skills competition and can UConn make history and repeat? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In our first show since Super Bowl XVIII, Lucy Burdge and Brandon Sprague discuss last week's Super Bowl, that featured the Chiefs beating the 49ers in an Overtime Classic. As a 49ers fan, Sprague breaks down where exactly he would put the blame and if he has any confidence on his team getting back to the big game in the near future. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hats Off To This Week's Contributors: @RyanMorrisonJer, @geneteare, @mgsiegler, @spyglass_feed, @saulausterlitz, @ClareMalone, @benedictevans, @mikeloukides, @ErikNaso, @kateclarktweets, @finkd, @mattbirchler, @imillhiser, @jaygoldberg, @ron_miller, @btaylor, @sierraplatform, @eladgilContents* Editorial: * Essays of the Week* AI Leads New Unicorn Creation As Ranks Of $1B Startups Swells * Behold: The Sports Streaming Bundle* 40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl Forever* Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?* Video of the Week* AI and Everything Else - Benedict Evans from Slush* AI of the Week* The OpenAI Endgame* OpenAI Sora– The most realistic AI-generated video to date* I Was Wrong. We Haven't Reached Peak AI Frenzy.* News Of the Week* I tried Vision Pro. Here's my take* The Quest 3 is better than you might expect* The Supreme Court will decide if the government can seize control of YouTube and Twitter* Arm Results Set The World On Fire* Startup of the Week* Bret Taylor's new AI company aims to help customers get answers and complete tasks automatically* X of the Week* Elad Gil on AIEditorial: And The Oscar Goes to SoraOpenAI teased its new video creation model - Sora - this week.In doing so it released a technical report and several examples of prompts and outputs.Cautious to not over-state the end game the company said:We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our largest model, Sora, is capable of generating a minute of high fidelity video. Our results suggest that scaling video generation models is a promising path towards building general purpose simulators of the physical world.All of the videos are incredible, albeit only a minute or less each. My favorite is the Dogs in Snow video:Although the ‘Closeup Man in Glasses' is also wonderful.I mention this because the speed at which AI is addressing new fields is - in my opinion - mind-boggling. Skills that take humans decades to perfect are being learned in months and are capable of scaling to infinite outputs using words, code, images, video, and sound.It will take the advancement of robotics to tie these capabilities to physical work, but that seems assured to happen.When engineering, farming, transport, or production meets AI then human needs can be addressed directly.Sora winning an Oscar for Cinematography or in producing from a script or a book seems far-fetched. But it wasn't so long ago that a tech company doing so would have been laughable, and now we have Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV Plus regularly being nominated or winning awards.Production will increasingly be able to leverage AI.Some will say this is undermining human skills, but I think the opposite. It will release human skills. Take the prompt that produced the Dogs in Snow video:Prompt:A litter of golden retriever puppies playing in the snow. Their heads pop out of the snow, covered in.I can imagine that idea and write it down. But my skills would not allow me to produce it. Sora opens my imagination and enables me to act on it. I guess that many humans have creative ideas that they are unable to execute….up to now. Sora, DallE, and ChatGPT all focus on releasing human potential.Google released its Gemini 1.5 model this week (less than a month after releasing Gemini Ultra 1.0). Tom's Guide has a summary and analysis by Ryan MorrisonGemini Pro 1.5 has a staggering 10 million token context length. That is the amount of content it can store in its memory for a single chat or response. This is enough for hours of video or multiple books within a single conversation, and Google says it can find any piece of information within that window with a high level of accuracy.Jeff Dean, Google DeepMind Chief Scientist wrote on X that the model also comes with advanced multimodal capabilities across code, text, image, audio and video.He wrote that this means you can “interact in sophisticated ways with entire books, very long document collections, codebases of hundreds of thousands of lines across hundreds of files, full movies, entire podcast series, and more."In “needle-in-a-haystack” testing where they look for the needle in the vast amount of data stored in the context window, they were able to find specific pieces of information with 99.7% accuracy even with 10 million tokens of data.All of this makes it easy to understand why Kate Clark at The Information penned a piece with the title: I Was Wrong. We Haven't Reached Peak AI FrenzyI will leave this week's editorial with Ryan Morrison's observation at the end of his article:What we are seeing with these advanced multimodal models is the interaction of the digital and the real, where AI is gaining a deeper understanding of humanity and how WE see the world.Essays of the WeekAI Leads New Unicorn Creation As Ranks Of $1B Startups Swells  February 13, 2024Gené Teare @geneteareFewer startups became unicorns in 2023, but The Crunchbase Unicorn Board also became more crowded, as exits became even scarcer.That means that 10 years after the term “unicorn” was coined to denote those private startups valued at $1 billion or more, there are over 1,500 current unicorn companies globally, collectively valued at more than $5 trillion based on their most recent valuations from funding deals.All told, fewer than 100 companies joined the Unicorn Board in 2023, the lowest count in more than five years, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows.Of the 95 companies that joined the board in 2023, AI was the leading sector, adding 20 new unicorns alone. Other leading unicorn sectors in 2023 included fintech (with 14 companies), cleantech and energy (12 each), and semiconductors (nine).Based on an analysis of Crunchbase data, 41 companies joined the Unicorn Board from the U.S. and 24 from China in 2023. Other countries were in the single digits for new unicorns: Germany had four new companies, while India and the U.K. each had three.New records nonethelessDespite the slower pace of new unicorns, the Crunchbase board of current private unicorns has reached new milestones as fewer companies exited the board in 2023.The total number of global unicorns on our board reached 1,500 at the start of 2024, which takes into account the exclusion of those that have exited via an M&A or IPO transaction. Altogether, these private unicorn companies have raised north of $900 billion from investors.This year also marks a decade since investor Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures coined the term unicorn for private companies valued at a billion dollars or more.In a new report looking at the unicorn landscape 10 years later, Lee said she believes the unicorn phenomenon is not going away, despite a sharp downturn in venture funding in recent years. She expects more than 1,000 new companies in the U.S. alone will join the ranks in the next decade.Unicorn exitsIn 2023, 10 unicorn companies exited the board via an IPO, far fewer than in recent years. That contrasts with 20 companies in 2022 and 113 in 2021.However, M&A was more active in 2023. Sixteen unicorn companies were acquired in 2023 — up from 2022 when 11 companies were acquired and slightly down from 2021 with 21 companies exiting via an acquisition.December numbersEight new companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in December 2023. The highest monthly count last year for new unicorns was 10 and the lowest was two.Of the new unicorns, three are artificial intelligence companies. Other sectors that minted unicorns in December include fintech, cybersecurity, food and beverage, and health care.The new unicorn companies minted in December 2023 were:..MoreBehold: The Sports Streaming BundleIt just makes sense. Sports was the last thing holding together the cable TV bundle. Now it will be the start of the streaming bundle.That's my 5-minute reaction to the truly huge news that Disney, Warner, and Fox are launching a new sports streaming service, combining their various sports rights into one package. Well, presumably. The details are still quite thin at this point. Clearly, several entities were racing to this story, with both WSJ and Bloomberg claiming "scoops" by publishing paragraph-long stories with only the high level facts. I'm linking to Varietyabove, which at least has a few more details, including (canned) quotes from Bob Iger, Lachlan Murdoch, and David Zaslav.Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney are set to launch a new streaming joint venture that will make all of their sports programming available under a single broadband roof, a move that will put content from ESPN, TNT and Fox Sports on a new standalone app and, in the process, likely shake up the world of TV sports.The three media giants are slated to launch the new service in the fall. Subscribers would get access to linear sports networks including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN, ESPNEWS, ABC, Fox, FS1, FS2, BTN, TNT, TBS, truTV and ESPN+, as well as hundreds of hours from the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL and many top college divisions. Pricing will be announced at a later date.Each company would own one third of the new outlet and license their sports content to it on a non-exclusive basis. The service would have a new brand and an independent management teamYes, this is essentially running the Hulu playbook of old, but only for sports content. No, that ultimately didn't end well, but Hulu had a decent enough run before egos got involved.1 Here, the egos are once again being (at least temporarily) set aside to do something obvious: make money. Sports is the one bit of content that most people watch in one form or another, live no less (hence why it was keeping the cable bundle together). And increasingly, with the rise of streaming, it was becoming impossible to figure out what game was on, where. You could get access to most games online now, but it might require buying four or five different services. And again, then finding which one the game you wanted was actually on...More40 Years Ago, This Ad Changed the Super Bowl ForeverAn oral history of Apple's groundbreaking “1984” spot, which helped to establish the Super Bowl as TV's biggest commercial showcase.By Saul AusterlitzPublished Feb. 9, 2024Updated Feb. 10, 2024Four decades ago, the Super Bowl became the Super Bowl.It wasn't because of anything that happened in the game itself: On Jan. 22, 1984, the Los Angeles Raiders defeated Washington 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII, a contest that was mostly over before halftime. But during the broadcast on CBS, a 60-second commercial loosely inspired by a famous George Orwell novel shook up the advertising and the technology sectors without ever showing the product it promoted. Conceived by the Chiat/Day ad agency and directed by Ridley Scott, then fresh off making the seminal science-fiction noir “Blade Runner,” the Apple commercial “1984,” which was intended to introduce the new Macintosh computer, would become one of the most acclaimed commercials ever made. It also helped to kick off — pun partially intended — the Super Bowl tradition of the big game serving as an annual showcase for gilt-edged ads from Fortune 500 companies. It all began with the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs's desire to take the battle with the company's rivals to a splashy television broadcast he knew nothing about.In recent interviews, several of the people involved in creating the “1984” spot — Scott; John Sculley, then chief executive of Apple; Steve Hayden, a writer of the ad for Chiat/Day; Fred Goldberg, the Apple account manager for Chiat/Day; and Anya Rajah, the actor who famously threw the sledgehammer — looked back on how the commercial came together, its inspiration and the internal objections that almost kept it from airing. These are edited excerpts from the conversations.JOHN SCULLEY On Oct. 19, 1983, we're all sitting around in Steve [Jobs's] building, the Mac building, and the cover of Businessweek says, “The Winner is … IBM.” We were pretty deflated because this was the introduction of the IBM PCjr, and we hadn't even introduced the Macintosh yet.STEVE HAYDEN Jobs said, “I want something that will stop the world in its tracks.” Our media director, Hank Antosz, said, “Well, there's only one place that can do that — the Super Bowl.” And Steve Jobs said, “What's the Super Bowl?” [Antosz] said, “Well, it's a huge football game that attracts one of the largest audiences of the year.” And [Jobs] said, “I've never seen a Super Bowl. I don't think I know anybody who's seen a Super Bowl.”FRED GOLDBERG The original idea was actually done in 1982. We presented an ad [with] a headline, which was “Why 1984 Won't Be Like ‘1984,'” to Steve Jobs, and he didn't think the Apple III was worthy of that claim...MoreIs the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?Ads are scarce, search and social traffic is dying, and readers are burned out. The future will require fundamentally rethinking the press's relationship to its audience.Clare MaloneFebruary 10, 2024My first job in media was as an assistant at The American Prospect, a small political magazine in Washington, D.C., that offered a promising foothold in journalism. I helped with the print order, mailed checks to writers—after receiving lots of e-mails asking, politely, Where is my money?—and ran the intern program. This last responsibility allowed me a small joy: every couple of weeks, a respected journalist would come into the office for a brown-bag lunch in our conference room, giving our most recent group of twentysomethings a chance to ask for practical advice about “making it.” One man told us to embrace a kind of youthful workaholism, before we became encumbered by kids and families. An investigative reporter implored us to file our taxes and to keep our personal lives in order—never give the rich and powerful a way to undercut your journalism. But perhaps the most memorable piece of advice was from a late-career writer who didn't mince words. You want to make it in journalism, he said? Marry rich. We laughed. He didn't.I've thought a lot about that advice in the past year. A report that tracked layoffs in the industry in 2023 recorded twenty-six hundred and eighty-one in broadcast, print, and digital news media. NBC News, Vox Media, Vice News, Business Insider, Spotify, theSkimm, FiveThirtyEight, The Athletic, and Condé Nast—the publisher of The New Yorker—all made significant layoffs. BuzzFeed News closed, as did Gawker. The Washington Post, which lost about a hundred million dollars last year, offered buyouts to two hundred and forty employees. In just the first month of 2024, Condé Nast laid off a significant number of Pitchfork's staff and folded the outlet into GQ; the Los Angeles Times laid off at least a hundred and fifteen workers (their union called it “the big one”); Time cut fifteen per cent of its union-represented editorial staff; the Wall Street Journal slashed positions at its D.C. bureau; and Sports Illustrated, which had been weathering a scandal for publishing A.I.-generated stories, laid off much of its staff as well. One journalist recently cancelled a networking phone call with me, writing, “I've decided to officially take my career in a different direction.” There wasn't much I could say to counter that conclusion; it was perfectly logical.“Publishers, brace yourselves—it's going to be a wild ride,” Matthew Goldstein, a media consultant, wrote in a January newsletter. “I see a potential extinction-level event in the future.” Some of the forces cited by Goldstein were already well known: consumers are burned out by the news, and social-media sites have moved away from promoting news articles. But Goldstein also pointed to Google's rollout of A.I.-integrated search, which answers user queries within the Google interface, rather than referring them to outside Web sites, as a major factor in this coming extinction. According to a recent Wall Street Journalanalysis, Google generates close to forty per cent of traffic across digital media. Brands with strong home-page traffic will likely be less affected, Goldstein wrote—places like Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Daily Mail, CNN, the Washington Post, and Fox News. But Web sites that aren't as frequently typed into browsers need to “contemplate drastic measures, possibly halving their brand portfolios.”What will emerge in the wake of mass extinction, Brian Morrissey, another media analyst, recently wrote in his newsletter, “The Rebooting,” is “a different industry, leaner and diminished, often serving as a front operation to other businesses,” such as events, e-commerce, and sponsored content. In fact, he told me, what we are witnessing is nothing less than the end of the mass-media era. “This is a delayed reaction to the commercial Internet itself,” he said. “I don't know if anything could have been done differently.”..Much MoreVideo of the WeekAI and Everything Else - Benedict Evans from SlushAI of the WeekThe OpenAI EndgameThoughts about the outcome of the NYT versus OpenAI copyright lawsuitBy Mike LoukidesFebruary 13, 2024Since the New York Times sued OpenAI for infringing its copyrights by using Times content for training, everyone involved with AI has been wondering about the consequences. How will this lawsuit play out? And, more importantly, how will the outcome affect the way we train and use large language models?There are two components to this suit. First, it was possible to get ChatGPT to reproduce some Times articles very close to verbatim. That's fairly clearly copyright infringement, though there are still important questions that could influence the outcome of the case. Reproducing the New York Times clearly isn't the intent of ChatGPT, and OpenAI appears to have modified ChatGPT's guardrails to make generating infringing content more difficult, though probably not impossible. Is this enough to limit any damages? It's not clear that anybody has used ChatGPT to avoid paying for a NYT subscription. Second, the examples in a case like this are always cherry-picked. While the Times can clearly show that OpenAI can reproduce some articles, can it reproduce any article from the Times' archive? Could I get ChatGPT to produce an article from page 37 of the September 18, 1947 issue? Or, for that matter, an article from the Chicago Tribune or the Boston Globe? Is the entire corpus available (I doubt it), or just certain random articles? I don't know, and given that OpenAI has modified GPT to reduce the possibility of infringement, it's almost certainly too late to do that experiment. The courts will have to decide whether inadvertent, inconsequential, or unpredictable reproduction meets the legal definition of copyright infringement.The more important claim is that training a model on copyrighted content is infringement, whether or not the model is capable of reproducing that training data in its output. An inept and clumsy version of this claim was made by Sarah Silverman and others in a suit that was dismissed. The Authors' Guild has its own version of this lawsuit, and it is working on a licensing model that would allow its members to opt in to a single licensing agreement. The outcome of this case could have many side-effects, since it essentially would allow publishers to charge not just for the texts they produce, but for how those texts are used.It is difficult to predict what the outcome will be, though easy enough guess. Here's mine. OpenAI will settle with the New York Times out of court, and we won't get a ruling. This settlement will have important consequences: it will set a de-facto price on training data. And that price will no doubt be high. Perhaps not as high as the Times would like (there are rumors that OpenAI has offered something in the range of $1 million to $5 million), but sufficiently high enough to deter OpenAI's competitors.$1M is not, in and of itself, a terribly high price, and the Times reportedly thinks that it's way too low; but realize that OpenAI will have to pay a similar amount to almost every major newspaper publisher worldwide in addition to organizations like the Authors Guild, technical journal publishers, magazine publishers, and many other content owners. The total bill is likely to be close to $1 billion, if not more, and as models need to be updated, at least some of it will be a recurring cost. I suspect that OpenAI would have difficulty going higher, even given Microsoft's investments—and, whatever else you may think of this strategy—OpenAI has to think about the total cost. I doubt that they are close to profitable; they appear to be running on an Uber-like business plan, in which they spend heavily to buy the market without regard for running a sustainable business. But even with that business model, billion-dollar expenses have to raise the eyebrows of partners like Microsoft.The Times, on the other hand, appears to be making a common mistake: overvaluing its data. Yes, it has a large archive—but what is the value of old news? Furthermore, in almost any application but especially in AI, the value of data isn't the data itself; it's the correlations between different datasets. The Times doesn't own those correlations any more than I own the correlations between my browsing data and Tim O'Reilly's. But those correlations are precisely what's valuable to OpenAI and others building data-driven products...MoreOpenAI Sora– The most realistic AI-generated video to dateERIK NASOOpenAI Sora is an AI text-to-video model that has achieved incredibly realistic video that is hard to tell it is AI. It's very life-like but not real. I think we have just hit the beginning of some truly powerful AI-generated video that could change the game for stock footage and more. Below are two examples of the most realistic AI prompt-generated videos I have seen.Prompt: A stylish woman walks down a Tokyo street filled with warm glowing neon and animated city signage. She wears a black leather jacket, a long red dress, and black boots, and carries a black purse. She wears sunglasses and red lipstick. She walks confidently and casually. The street is damp and reflective, creating a mirror effect of the colorful lights. Many pedestrians walk about.Prompt: Drone view of waves crashing against the rugged cliffs along Big Sur's garay point beach. The crashing blue waters create white-tipped waves, while the golden light of the setting sun illuminates the rocky shore. A small island with a lighthouse sits in the distance, and green shrubbery covers the cliff's edge. The steep drop from the road down to the beach is a dramatic feat, with the cliff's edges jutting out over the sea. This is a view that captures the raw beauty of the coast and the rugged landscape of the Pacific Coast Highway.Prompt: Animated scene features a close-up of a short fluffy monster kneeling beside a melting red candle. The art style is 3D and realistic, with a focus on lighting and texture. The mood of the painting is one of wonder and curiosity, as the monster gazes at the flame with wide eyes and open mouth. Its pose and expression convey a sense of innocence and playfulness, as if it is exploring the world around it for the first time. The use of warm colors and dramatic lighting further enhances the cozy atmosphere of the image.Sora can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the user's prompt. OpenAI SOra states they are teaching AI to understand and simulate the physical world in motion, with the goal of training models that help people solve problems that require real-world interaction...MoreI Was Wrong. We Haven't Reached Peak AI Frenzy.By Kate ClarkFeb 15, 2024, 4:16pm PSTAfter Sam Altman's sudden firing last year, I argued the chaos that followed his short-lived ouster would inject a healthy dose of caution into venture investments in artificial intelligence companies. I figured we'd finally reached the peak of the AI venture capital frenzy when a threatened employee exodus from OpenAI risked sending the value of the $86 billion AI juggernaut almost to zero. There was plenty of other proof that the hype for generative AI was fading. Investors were openly saying they planned to be a lot tougher on valuation negotiations and would ask startups harder questions about governance. Some companies had begun to consider selling themselves due to the high costs of developing AI software. And an early darling of the AI boom, AI-powered writing tool Jasper, had become the butt of jokes when it slashed internal revenue projections and cut its internal valuation after having won a $1.5 billion valuation in 2022. I forgot that everyone in Silicon Valley suffers from short-term memory loss. After a week sipping boxed water with venture capitalists from South Park to Sand Hill Road, I'm convinced I called the end of the AI frenzy far too soon. In fact, I expect this year will deliver more cash into the hands of U.S. AI startups than last year, when those companies raised a total of $63 billion, according to PitchBook data. Altman's fundraising ambitions will surely boost the total. A recent report from The Wall Street Journal said Altman plans to raise trillions of dollars to develop the AI chips needed to create artificial general intelligence, software that can reason the way humans do. Even if that number is actually much smaller, talk of such goals lifts the ceiling for other startup founders, who are  likely to think even bigger and to be more aggressive in their fundraising. Investor appetite for AI companies is still growing, too. These investors claimed last fall that they were done with the FOMO-inspired deals, but they're pushing checks on the top AI companies now harder than ever...MoreNews Of the WeekI tried Vision Pro. Here's my takeThe Quest 3 is better than you might expectPosted by Matt Birchler13 Feb 2024Alex Heath for The Verge: Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is “the better product” vs. Apple's Vision ProHe says the Quest has a better “immersive” content library than Apple, which is technically true for now, though he admits that the Vision Pro is a better entertainment device. And then there's the fact that the Quest 3 is, as Zuck says, “like seven times less expensive.”I currently own both headsets and while I'm very excited about the potential in the Vision Pro, I actually find it hard to fully disagree with Zuck on this one. I think a lot of people have only used the Vision Pro would be surprised how well the Quest 3 does some things in comparison.For example, the pass-through mode is definitely not quite as good as the Vision Pro's, but it's closer than you might expect. And while people are rightly impressed with how well the Vision Pro has windows locked in 3D space, honestly the Quest 3 is just as good at this in my experience. When it comes to comfort, I do think the Vision Pro is easier to wear for longer periods, but I find it more finicky to get in just the right spot in front of my eyes, while the Quest 3 seems to have a larger sweet spot. And let's not even talk about the field of view, which is way wider on the Quest to the point of being unnoticeable basically all the time. I kinda think field of view will be similar to phone bezels in that you get used to what you have and anything more seems huge — you can get used to the Vision Pro's narrower field of view, but once you're used to wider, it's hard to not notice when going back.The Vision Pro has some hardware features that help it rise above (the massively higher resolution screen jumps to mind), but I'm just saying that if you're looking for everything to be 7x better to match the price difference, I don't think that's there.Beyond this, the products are quite different, though. As Zuckerberg says, the Quest 3 is more focused on fully immersive VR experiences, and while the Vision Pro has a little of that right now, it's not really doing the same things. And when it comes to gaming it's not even close. The Quest 3 has a large library of games available and that expands to almost every VR game ever made with Steam Link.On the other hand, the Vision Pro is much for a “computer” than the Quest ever was. If you can do it on a Mac or an iPad, you can probably already do it on the Vision Pro. And I'm not talking about finding some weird alternate version of your task manager or web browser that doesn't sync with anything else in your life, I'm talking about the apps you already know and love. This is huge and it's Apple leveraging its ecosystem to make sure you can seamlessly move from Mac to iPhone to iPad to Vision Pro. And if you can't install something from the App Store, the web browser is just as capable as Safari on the iPad. If all else fails, you can always just bring your full Mac into your space as well. I will say the Quest 3 can do this and has the advantage of working with Windows as well, but if you have a Mac, it's much, much better.This is more words than I expected to write about a CEO saying his product is better than the competition's (shocker), but I do think that Zuck's statement is less insane than some may think it to be...MoreThe Supreme Court will decide if the government can seize control of YouTube and TwitterWe're about to find out if the Supreme Court still believes in capitalism.By Ian Millhiser Feb 15, 2024, 7:00am ESTIan Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court.In mid-2021, about a year before he began his longstanding feud with the biggest employer in his state, Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation attempting to seize control of content moderation at major social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter (now called X by Elon Musk). A few months later, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, also a Republican, signed similar legislation in his state.Both laws are almost comically unconstitutional — the First Amendment does not permit the government to order media companies to publish content they do not wish to publish — and neither law is currently in effect. A federal appeals court halted the key provisions of Florida's law in 2022, and the Supreme Court temporarily blocked Texas's law shortly thereafter (though the justices, somewhat ominously, split 5-4 in this later case).Nevertheless, the justices have not yet weighed in on whether these two unconstitutional laws must be permanently blocked, and that question is now before the Court in a pair of cases known as Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton.The stakes in both cases are quite high, and the Supreme Court's decision is likely to reveal where each one of the Republican justices falls on the GOP's internal conflict between old-school free market capitalists and a newer generation that is eager to pick cultural fights with business...MoreArm Results Set The World On FireFebruary 13, 2024 · by D/D Advisors · in Analyst Decoder Ring. ·Arm reported its second set of earnings as a (once again) public company last week. These numbers were particularly strong, well above consensus for both the current and guided quarters. Arm stock rallied strongly on the results up ~30% for the week. These numbers were important as they go a long way to establishing the company's credibility with the Street in a way their prior results did not.That being said, we saw things we both liked and disliked in their numbers. Here are our highlights of those:Positive: Growing Value Capture. One of our chief concerns with the company since IPO has been the low value they capture per licensed chip shipped – roughly $0.11 per chip at the IPO. That figure continued to inch higher in the latest results, but critically they pointed out that their royalty rate doubles with the latest version of their IP (v9). This does not mean that all of their royalty rates are going to double any time soon, but it does point very much in the right direction. Critically, they noted this rate increase applies to architectural licenses as well.Negative: The Model is Complex. Judging from the number of questions management fielded on the call about this rate increase no one really knows how to model Arm. The company has a lot of moving parts in its revenue mix, and they have limits to their ability to communicate some very important parts of their model. We think that at some point the company would be well served by providing some clearer guide posts on how to build these models or they risk the Street always playing catch up with a wide swing of expectations each quarter.Positive: Premium Plan Conversion. The company said three companies converted from their AFA plan to the ATA model. We will not get into the details of those here, but these can best be thought of in software terms with customers on low priced subscription plans converting to Premium subscription plans. This is a good trend, and management expressed a high degree of confidence that they expect to see it continue. They have spent a few years putting these programs in place and seem to have thought them through. This matters particularly because these programs are well suited for smaller, earlier-stage companies. The old Arm struggled to attract new customers in large part because of the high upfront costs of Arm licenses. Programs like AFA and ATA could go a long way to redressing those past wrongs.Negative: China remains a black box. Arm China is of course a constant source of speculation. In the latest quarter it looks like a large portion of growth came from China which does not exactly square with other data coming from China right now. It is still unclear to us how much of Arm's revenues from China's handset companies gets booked through Arm China as a related party transaction and how much is direct. Investors are confused too. There is no easy solution to this problem, digging too hard into Arm China's numbers is unlikely to make anyone happy with the answers, but hopefully over time it all settles down.Positive: Growing Complexity of Compute. Management repeatedly mentioned this factor, noting that this leads to more chips and more Arm cores shipping in the marketplace. Some of this is tied to AI, but we think the story is broader than that. It is going to be tempting to see much of Arm's growth as riding the AI wave, but this does not fully capture the situation. The AI story is largely about GPUs, which are not particularly heavy with Arm cores. But those GPUs still need some CPU attach, and AI accelerators can sometimes be good Arm targets.Negative: Diversification. Arm remains heavily dependent on smartphones, and we suspect the return to inventory stocking by handset makers is playing a big role in their guidance. When asked about segmentation of their results the company declined to update the model provided during the IPO. We hope to see some diversification here when they do update their figures later in the year.Overall, the company did a good job in the quarter. They still have some kinks to work out with their communication to the Street, but this was a good second step as a public company...MoreStartup of the WeekBret Taylor's new AI company aims to help customers get answers and complete tasks automaticallyRon Miller @ron_miller / 6:36 AM PST•February 13, 2024Image Credits: mi-vector / Getty ImagesWe've been hearing about former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor's latest gig since he announced he was leaving the CRM giant in November 2022. Last February we heard he was launching an AI startup built with former Google employee Clay Bavor. Today, the two emerged with a new conversational AI company called Sierra with some bold claims about what it can do.At its heart, the new company is a customer service bot. That's not actually all that Earth-shattering, but the company claims that it's much more than that, with its software going beyond being an extension of a FAQ page and actually taking actions on behalf of the customer.“Sierra agents can do so much more than just answer questions. They take action using your systems, from upgrading a subscription in your customer database to managing the complexities of a furniture delivery in your order management system. Agents can reason, problem solve and make decisions,” the company claimed in a blog post.Having worked with large enterprise customers at Salesforce, Taylor certainly understands that issues like hallucinations, where a large language model sometimes makes up an answer when it lacks the information to answer accurately, is a serious problem. That's especially true for large companies, whose brand reputation is at stake. The company claims that it is solving hallucination issues.Image Credits: SierraAt the same time, it's connecting to other enterprise systems to undertake tasks on behalf of the customer without humans being involved. These are both big audacious claims and will be challenging to pull off...MoreX of the Week This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thatwastheweek.substack.com/subscribe

The dust has settled on Super Bowl LVIII and Tony is back in Texas for this week's episode of The Huddle. On today's show, the guys pick up the pieces from a devastating San Francisco 49ers loss and talk about Tony's experience at Allegiant Stadum and whether or not he'd do it again. But really, was this all Tony's fault? Ninja has to ask the question as Tony has been on a “hate fest” of Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce AND Taylor Swift all season long. Maybe this is all just karma? The fact of the matter is that Mahomes has entrenched himself into the GOAT QB debate and Tony breaks down his current top four of all time list. The guys also take a look at the Super Bowl 59 odds board to see if there is any value as it is never too early to bet on futures. But now that all football is over for the next while, the questions remains: what do we bet on next? Tony talks about what he does not to pivot to college basketball and the NHL now that the NFL does not have his undividied attention. If you've been with Odds Shark for a while, you know Ninja is a massive Premier League fan. With that in mind, he breaks down the top three things to know if NFL bettors are looking to get into Premier League betting but haven't been really paying attention. Last but certainly not least, it's Daytona 500 week and Tony talks about things to keep in mind when capping the race as Daytona can be a different beast than most other tracks on the NASCAR circuit. All this and more on episode 21 of The Huddle

Nick Bolton held up just fine in Super Bowl XVIII. Peyton Marshall has already transformed his body, and that's a great sign for his future. Don't worry, basketball fans, The Tiger Fund can be spent on hoops too. Cody Schrader, Javon Foster, Darius Robinson, Ty'Ron Hopper, Kris Abrams-Draine, Jaylon Carlies, Ennis Rakestraw, and Harrison Mevis all received NFL Combine invitations; who will be drafted?***Follow Locked On Mizzou for FREE, and never miss an episode: LockedOnMizzou.com

Nick Bolton held up just fine in Super Bowl XVIII. Peyton Marshall has already transformed his body, and that's a great sign for his future. Don't worry, basketball fans, The Tiger Fund can be spent on hoops too. Cody Schrader, Javon Foster, Darius Robinson, Ty'Ron Hopper, Kris Abrams-Draine, Jaylon Carlies, Ennis Rakestraw, and Harrison Mevis all received NFL Combine invitations; who will be drafted? *** Follow Locked On Mizzou for FREE, and never miss an episode:  LockedOnMizzou.com

Las Vegas native Michael Pritchard hopped on to preview the Super Bowl XVIII between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers. 

Super Bowl XVIII has arrived, home cooking can't help shorthanded Bucks, the Green Bay Phoenix grab sole possession of first in the Horizon League and the GB ladies deliver another milestone for Kevin Borseth.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are just a couple of days away from kickoff in Super Bowl LVIII as the San Francisco 49ers take on the Kansas City Chiefs and the guys use their final episode of the NFL season to talk all about it. Tony talks about the current state of the point spread and the total and why we haven't seen any movement off 47.5 despite most of the money coming in on the OVER, as so often is the case. Also, it's been fairly quiet on the injuries front for the San Francisco 49ers, but it's mildly different for the Chiefs with a couple players on the shelf. Tony breaks it all down. The guys share their favorite Super Bowl bets as Tony breaks down four and Ninja has three in an effort to finish off the season strong! Elsewhere, the guys break down their favorite Super Bowl memories from down the years and talk about their favorite Super Bowl commercials, which doesn't go too far beyond beer ads to be honest. And in a callous act of revenge, Tony has put together the most difficult 10 rounds of Super Bowl Trivia you could ever see! All that and more on episode 20 of The Huddle!

JTW and K Mo give their thoughts on the NFC Championship Game. "They had us in the first half, not gonna lie." After being down 7-24 at halftime, the San Francisco 49ers make an improbable comeback against the Detroit Lions. The NFC West will be representing the conference in the Super Bowl! Breakdown between the 49ers vs Chiefs in Super Bowl XVIII.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/just-the-west-an-nfc-west-podcast/donations

Welcome back to Talks To-Go! In this episode, Jill and George talk about The 2024 Grammys, Jerry Seinfeld, Serafina, Super Bowl XVIII predictions and much more. No reservations needed. All TALKS are TO-GO.   Instagram: @talkstogopodcast TikTok: @talkstogopod Jill: @jillmorgannnn George: @georgealanruthvo

Zondag kunnen we weer genieten van het grootste eendaagse sportevenement ter wereld: de Super Bowl. In editie nummer 58, die in Las Vegas plaatsvindt, staan de San Francisco 49'ers en de Kansas City Chiefs tegenover elkaar. Een herhaling van de Super Bowl van vier jaar geleden, toen de Chiefs wisten te winnen. We blikten erop vooruit met Jeffrey van Braam Morris, lineman van de Hilversum Hurricanes. Presentatie: Ron Lemmens

Chris Mack, Erin Hawksworth and Joe Ostrowski review the betting handle from BetMGM for Super Bowl XVIII, and what exactly the Books are rooting for heading into the big game. Plus, the latest Super Bowl injury news, and the Raiders have a new Offensive Coordinator. Then, College Basketball Expert Mike Rutherford joins the show to discuss all things Collee Hoops and some of the bets he plans on making this weekend and Erin goes Off The Board, with the best and funniest stories in sports outside of the betting industry. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oggi a The Snap parliamo di Jack Squirek che nel Super Bowl XVIII intercettò Joe Theismann riportando in end zone la palla. Un'azione ricca di significati per la quale è ancora ricordato.

The San Francisco 49ers sit as slight favorites over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII and Ninja, Tony and special guest Ryan Hoag talk all about it on this week's episode of The Huddle. The guys break down the crazy line movement we've seen since odds were hung late Sunday night and Ryan breaks down exactly why he thinks the number is where it is.Ryan also discusses fellow Mr. Irrelevant Brock Purdy and why the Niners QB is so polarizing among NFL fans. The guys dig into Super Bowl MVP markets and whether or not it's a disservice that Purdy is second on the odds board behind Chiefs' QB Patrick Mahomes despite his team being the betting favorite. In a Huddle EXCLUSIVE, our very own Tony Farmer might actually be attending the game on Super Bowl Sunday! He talks through his plan with the guys but the conversation quickly dissolves into why Ninja would be a terrible person to watch a game with and why Tony has the craziest roster of Super Bowl snacks.' There is a case to be made that Patrick Mahomes is on his way to becoming the GOAT NFL quarterback. The guys compare his stats with Tom Brady through their opening six seasons as a starting quarterback in this league it's starting to stack up pretty favorably for Mahomes. Next, the guys dig into the matchups on the field for Super Bowl LVIII and break down where the game could be won and lost. They talk quarterbacks, the head coaching work between Kyle Shanahan and Andy Reid, the battles in the trenches, Christian McCaffrey vs the Chiefs running defense and the 49ers defensive backs versus the Chiefs wide receivers. Lastly, Ninja breaks down some Super Bowl trivia for the guys and tabs Ryan as the favorite with Tony as the dogs. 10 questions to show who's boss! All this and more on the first of two jam-packed Super Bowl betting shows on The Huddle!

Chris Mack, Erin Hawksworth and Joe Ostrowski react to all things from NFL Championship Sunday including an all time comeback by the 49ers to beat the Lions to help Erin avoid a tattoo, and the Chiefs going to their fourth Super Bowl in the last six seasons with a victory at the Ravens. The show continues with an early look and initial leans Super Bowl XVIII between the Chiefs and the 49ers. Plus who messed up and will be heading to BetQL Court after Championship Sunday? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Mack, Joe Ostrowski and Erin Hawksworth take an early look at Super Bowl XVIII between the Chiefs and the 49ers, with their initial leans and a look at the initial bet split the morning after the matchup was officially set.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week: My refreshing take on Super Bowl XVIII, why the Chiefs and Niners are way off my radar, cry harder Taylor Swift, my final (and logical) thoughts on fate of Tony Soprano, and practicing my Dusty Slay impression.

Brandon has ventured too far down conspiracy road, and has a wild conspiracy that feeds in to the NFL being scripted, and holds the answer to which teams will play in Super Bowl XVIII and who will win. Check it out.

The Minnesota Wild did the inevitable and fired Dean Evason from his duties as head coach. It was as dead end job as there ever was with the Parise and Suter contracts hanging over the franchise. Should he have ever taken the job? Happy Birthday to Marc-Andre Fleury and on this day in 1983 The LA Raiders beat the New York Giants on their way to winning Super Bowl XVIII. And todays "Final Thought" on the ineptitude of the NHL, NHLPA and the Department of Player Safety. Save $20 at Seat Geek by using promo code 1420POD today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the depths of having an aging roster and a battle with the NFL over a move to the City of Angels from their roost in Oakland, Raiders owner Al Davis, and his team fought their way through the AFC to have the right to take on the defending Champions, the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII. Author Rich Shmelter covers the entire 1983 season through the lens of these two title teams and the results of their meeting in the Big Game in his latest book Championship Diary: Super Bowl XVIII.Sports historian and Author of multiple books on LA and Cleveland sports as well as other topics. Join us at the Pigskin Dispatch website and the Sports Jersey Dispatch to see even more Positive football news! Sign up to get daily football history headlines in your email inbox @ Email-subscriberMiss our football by the day of the year podcasts, well don't, because they can still be found at the Pigskin Dispatch website.

Listen as T3 recaps the Los Angeles Raiders victory over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII. Lead by Marcus Allen, Jim Plunkett and legendary coach Tom Flores, the Raiders defeated Washington by a score of 38-9 in Tampa Bay, Florida.

T3RaiderFax recaps the 1983 season for the Los Angeles Raiders. He tells the story of victory after victory and walks us through the Silver and Black's return to excellence and into Super Bowl XVIII.

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Led by head coach Tom Flores, the 1983 Los Angeles Raiders entered Super Bowl XVIII as underdogs. But the Raiders proved that they were the NFL's best as they manhandled the highest scoring team in the league, the Washington Redskins, 38-9 to win their third Vince Lombardi Trophy. Al Davis has done more than anybody in the history of the game - through personal achievement, team achievement and contribution to the game - and has demonstrated more than ever that he is and always will be committed to excellence. Flores' unit sported a 12-4 record, led on offense by Jim Plunkett, Marcus Allen and Cliff Branch. The defense was anchored by Hall of Famers Howie Long, Ted Hendricks and Mike Haynes, as well as star cornerback Lester Hayes. Interviews with Marcus Allen, Todd Christensen and Howie Long take you inside all of the action of one of the greatest teams in NFL history. Al Davis summed up Super Bowl XVIII perfectly: "Not only in my opinion are you the greatest Raider team of all-time, I think you rank with the great teams of all time that have ever played any professional sport.

On the second episode of 'Once a Raider, Always a Raider,' Hall of Famer and Raiders legend Howie Long discusses his relationship with Tom Flores, Super Bowl XVIII, Flores' Hall of Fame career and more.

On the second episode of 'Once a Raider, Always a Raider,' Hall of Famer and Raiders legend Howie Long discusses his relationship with Tom Flores, Super Bowl XVIII, Flores' Hall of Fame career and more.

YAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH #RAIDERS Fans and fans of YOUR TEAM in the NFL... WELCOME ABOARD THE CAPTAIN'S GALLEON as we're 2/3 done with the NFL Pre-Season, as teams were playing more of their starters this past weekend... Any surprises? Anything come up as WOW plays? I just saw a HELL OF A PASS from Bears' rookie Justin Fields down the field (no pun intended) in what was otherwise a Bills' blowout.  Unfortunately the receiver dropped the ball, but a great play/pass by Fields...Speaking of Blowouts, RAIDER LINEBACKER and THE PLAYER of the "PICK-6 of SUPER BOWL XVIII" joins us...none other than Jack Squirek #58, as he sits down with us and goes over his memories of the RAIDERS BLOWOUT OF THE REDSKINS during that great January day of 1984... Ahhhhhhhh Yessssssssss I remember it well!! Jack gives his insight and memories of playing in the #NFL and for the Silver and Black.  I'm sure YOU will be entertained by his stories... REMEMBER... STARTING FOR THE REGULAR SEASON... the SUNDAY SHOW of "ASK CAPTAIN JACK" will be FOOTBALL ONLY... And unless you're a regular or can provide some juicy takes, it'll be SILVER AND BLACK-CENTRIC like in the past.   JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW... Be sure to join our FOOTBALL SHOWS on this and other channels for the season...  Wednesday Nights 9PM Eastern / 6PM Pacific on NFLNationLive on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpdlTPQRRSMCNgAhbsLkIkg with Ref_Guru, Violator Wayne Mabry and myself...ELITE Super Fan Show on this YouTube Channel and the ESF Facebook Page Friday Nights 9PM Eastern / 6PM Pacific https://www.facebook.com/elitesuperfans and catch AWESOME NFL FAN VIDEOS on the NFL FAN MEDIA YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAtTSzRO_WGFzSMJtFgUb-A

Today we have Super Bowl XVIII, which was held on January 22, 1984 at the Old Sombrero, Tampa Stadium, between the AFC champion Los Angeles Raiders and the NFC champion Washington Redskins.

JT The Brick is joined by former safety Vann McElroy to discuss his time as a Raider, Super Bowl XVIII, playing for Al Davis, and more.

In 1965, Ed Sabol discovered John Facenda in a bar where when he overheard him describe some football footage playing on the screen. Facenda was then a popular local television news anchor. Impressed, Ed Sabol approached him with an offer to narrate NFL Films footage and so began an inextricable vocal-film partnership. Sabol himself described Facenda as a stentorian baritone. Facenda and Jack Whitaker, a CBS Sports television legend, worked together on Philly TV in the 1950s and 60s. Facenda's sepulchral Voice of God  articulated in somber narrative, battle ridden NFL marathons. His recordings were orchestrated symphonically, against the musical soundtrack of composer Sam Spence. How many NFL fans love to attempt an imitation of Facenda's “On the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field?” Every letter is articulated diligently and enunciated perfectly. Sadly, he passed away in 1983, with his final voice-over work being the highlight film covering Super Bowl XVIII.

Tonight we'll be listening and watching to the show... and yes, I'll even be giving you up to date information on what's going on in Tinsel Town as the Academy Awards will be playing in the background... And hoping we won't be inundated with TOO MANY POLITICAL STATEMENTS...((sigh)).  What's the over/under on that... 10? Since I was dutifully broadcasting and only kept a cursory eye on the screen, you'll have to tell me how many of those "Holier Than Though" Speeches actually were given....Hockey is down to its last ten games before the Playoffs, so seating strategy is in FULL SWING.  I'm still stoked about seeing how my team can improve for next year... is YOUR TEAM going to be playing past May? Baseball is nearly finishing its first month of the season, and the A's have made great strides since their beginning nose-dive... while the Yankees are a surprise out of the gate in all the wrong ways (although they took 3 of 4 in Cleveland this weekend.  The Jays/Rays met in Tampa with Toronto showing who's boss in the AL East.  Having said all that, tonight's discussion centered on.... guess what.... FOOTBALL.  First off, our deepest condolences go out to the Davis family in Arizona and throughout the country, as we learned tonight we lost a truly good soul and dynamic supporter of Raider Nation in #36... Hero of that frigid cold Playoff game in Cleveland... "RED RIGHT 88" and THE INTERCEPTION most famous in Raiders' lore prior to Jack Squirek's in Super Bowl XVIII and after Willie Brown's in Super Bowl XI.On a personal note, I was humbled to learn of my upcoming honor scheduled for Raider Nation Explosion II this July in Madera, California...  and I thank Mob Boss for telling me over my show... it truly was and will remain a humbling honor... and I thank YOU Raider Nation as well as M&M Productions.  Otherwise, sit back and join the Captain for tonight's show... 

JT The Brick chats with former linebacker Kirk Morrison to break down the Raiders' roster and needs heading into the 2021 NFL Draft. From there, former offensive lineman Ed Muransky discusses wearing the Silver and Black, life after football, Al Davis, and more.

Jim Tunney (born March 3, 1929) is a former American football official in the National Football League (NFL) from 1960 to 1990. In his 31 years as an NFL official, Tunney received a record 29 post-season assignments, including ten Championship games and Super Bowls VI, XI, and XII and named as an alternate in Super Bowl XVIII. He is still the only referee who has worked consecutive Super Bowls, and likely will be the only one to do so. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/byron-richmond/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/byron-richmond/support

There was a nexus of Digital Research and Xerox PARC, along with Stanford and Berkeley in the Bay Area. The rise of the hobbyists and the success of Apple attracted some of the best minds in computing to Apple. This confluence was about to change the world. One of those brilliant minds that landed at Apple started out as a technical writer.  Apple hired Jef Raskin as their 31st employee, to write the Apple II manual. He quickly started harping on people to build a computer that was easy to use. Mike Markkula wanted to release a gaming console or a cheap computer that could compete with the Commodore and Atari machines at the time. He called the project “Annie.” The project began with Raskin, but he had a very different idea than Markkula's. He summed it up in an article called “Computers by the Millions” that wouldn't see publication until 1982. His vision was closer to his PhD dissertation, bringing computing to the masses. For this, he envisioned a menu driven operating system that was easy to use and inexpensive. Not yet a GUI in the sense of a windowing operating system and so could run on chips that were rapidly dropping in price. He planned to use the 6809 chip for the machine and give it a five inch display.  He didn't tell anyone that he had a PhD when he was hired, as the team at Apple was skeptical of academia. Jobs provided input, but was off working on the Lisa project, which used the 68000 chip. So they had free reign over what they were doing.  Raskin quickly added Joanna Hoffman for marketing. She was on leave from getting a PhD in archaeology at the University of Chicago and was the marketing team for the Mac for over a year. They also added Burrell Smith, employee #282 from the hardware technician team, to do hardware. He'd run with the Homebrew Computer Club crowd since 1975 and had just strolled into Apple one day and asked for a job.  Raskin also brought in one of his students from the University of California San Diego who was taking a break from working on his PhD in neurochemistry. Bill Atkinson became employee 51 at Apple and joined the project. They pulled in Andy Hertzfeld, who Steve Jobs hired when Apple bought one of his programs as he was wrapping up his degree at Berkeley and who'd been sitting on the Apple services team and doing Apple III demos. They added Larry Kenyon, who'd worked at Amdahl and then on the Apple III team. Susan Kare came in to add art and design. They, along with Chris Espinosa - who'd been in the garage with Jobs and Wozniak working on the Apple I, ended up comprising the core team. Over time, the team grew. Bud Tribble joined as the manager for software development. Jerrold Manock, who'd designed the case of the Apple II, came in to design the now-iconic Macintosh case. The team would eventually expand to include Bob Belleville, Steve Capps, George Crow, Donn Denman, Bruce Horn, and Caroline Rose as well. It was still a small team. And they needed a better code name. But chronologically let's step back to the early project.  Raskin chose his favorite Apple, the Macintosh, as the codename for the project. As far as codenames go it was a pretty good one. So their mission would be to ship a machine that was easy to use, would appeal to the masses, and be at a price point the masses could afford. They were looking at 64k of memory, a Motorola 6809 chip, and a 256 bitmap display. Small, light, and inexpensive. Jobs' relationship with the Lisa team was strained and he was taken off of that and he started moving in on the Macintosh team. It was quickly the Steve Jobs show.  Having seen what could be done with the Motorola 68000 chip on the Lisa team, Jobs had them redesign the board to work with that. After visiting Xerox PARC at Raskin's insistence, Jobs finally got the desktop metaphor and true graphical interface design.  Xerox had not been quiet about the work at PARC. Going back to 1972 there were even television commercials. And Raskin had done time at PARC while on sabbatical from Stanford. Information about Smalltalk had been published and people like Bill Atkinson were reading about it in college. People had been exposed to the mouse all around the Bay Area in the 60s and 70s or read Engelbart's scholarly works on it. Many of the people that worked on these projects had doctorates and were academics. They shared their research as freely as love was shared during that counter-culture time. Just as it had passed from MIT to Dartmouth and then in the back of Bob Albrecht's VW had spread around the country in the 60s. That spirit of innovation and the constant evolutions over the past 25 years found their way to Steve Jobs.  He saw the desktop metaphor and mouse and fell in love with it, knowing they could build one for less than the $400 unit Xerox had. He saw how an object-oriented programming language like Smalltalk made all that possible. The team was already on their way to the same types of things and so Jobs told the people at PARC about the Lisa project, but not yet about the Mac. In fact, he was as transparent as anyone could be. He made sure they knew how much he loved their work and disclosed more than I think the team planned on him disclosing about Apple.  This is the point where Larry Tesler and others realized that the group of rag-tag garage-building Homebrew hackers had actually built a company that had real computer scientists and was on track to changing the world. Tesler and some others would end up at Apple later - to see some of their innovations go to a mass market. Steve Jobs at this point totally bought into Raskin's vision. Yet he still felt they needed to make compromises with the price and better hardware to make it all happen.  Raskin couldn't make the kinds of compromises Jobs wanted. He also had an immunity to the now-infamous Steve Jobs reality distortion field and they clashed constantly. So eventually Raskin the project just when it was starting to take off. Raskin would go on to work with Canon to build his vision, which became the Canon CAT.  With Raskin gone, and armed with a dream team of mad scientists, they got to work, tirelessly pushing towards shipping a computer they all believed would change the world. Jobs brought in Fernandez to help with projects like the macOS and later HyperCard. Wozniak had a pretty big influence over Raskin in the early days of the Mac project and helped here and there withe the project, like with the bit-serial peripheral bus on the Mac.  Steve Jobs wanted an inexpensive mouse that could be manufactured en masse. Jim Yurchenco from Hovey-Kelley, later called Ideo, got the task - given that trusted engineers at Apple had full dance cards. He looked at the Xerox mouse and other devices around - including trackballs in Atari arcade machines. Those used optics instead of mechanical switches. As the ball under the mouse rolled beams of light would be interrupted and the cost of those components had come down faster than the technology in the Xerox mouse.  He used a ball from a roll-on deodorant stick and got to work. The rest of the team designed the injection molded case for the mouse. That work began with the Lisa and by the time they were done, the price was low enough that every Mac could get one.  Armed with a mouse, they figured out how to move windows over the top of one another, Susan Kare designed iconography that is a bit less 8-bit but often every bit as true to form today. Learning how they wanted to access various components of the desktop, or find things, they developed the Finder. Atkinson gave us marching ants, the concept of double-clicking, the lasso for selecting content, the menu bar, MacPaint, and later, HyperCard.  It was a small team, working long hours. Driven by a Jobs for perfection. Jobs made the Lisa team the enemy. Everything not the Mac just sucked. He took the team to art exhibits. He had the team sign the inside of the case to infuse them with the pride of an artist. He killed the idea of long product specifications before writing code and they just jumped in, building and refining and rebuilding and rapid prototyping. The team responded well to the enthusiasm and need for perfectionism.  The Mac team was like a rebel squadron. They were like a start-up, operating inside Apple. They were pirates. They got fast and sometimes harsh feedback. And nearly all of them still look back on that time as the best thing they've done in their careers.  As IBM and many learned the hard way before them, they learned a small, inspired team, can get a lot done. With such a small team and the ability to parlay work done for the Lisa, the R&D costs were minuscule until they were ready to release the computer. And yet, one can't change the world over night. 1981 turned into 1982 turned into 1983.  More and more people came in to fill gaps. Collette Askeland came in to design the printed circuit board. Mike Boich went to companies to get them to write software for the Macintosh. Berry Cash helped prepare sellers to move the product. Matt Carter got the factory ready to mass produce the machine. Donn Denman wrote MacBASIC (because every machine needed a BASIC back then). Martin Haeberli helped write MacTerminal and Memory Manager. Bill Bull got rid of the fan. Patti King helped manage the software library. Dan Kottke helped troubleshoot issues with mother boards. Brian Robertson helped with purchasing. Ed Riddle designed the keyboard. Linda Wilkin took on documentation for the engineering team. It was a growing team. Pamela Wyman and Angeline Lo came in as programmers. Hap Horn and Steve Balog as engineers.  Jobs had agreed to bring in adults to run the company. So they recruited 44 years old hotshot CEO John Sculley to change the world as their CEO rather than selling sugar water at Pepsi. Scully and Jobs had a tumultuous relationship over time. While Jobs had made tradeoffs on cost versus performance for the Mac, Sculley ended up raising the price for business reasons. Regis McKenna came in to help with the market campaign. He would win over so much trust that he would later get called out of retirement to do damage control when Apple had an antenna problem on the iPhone. We'll cover Antenna-gate at some point. They spearheaded the production of the now-iconic 1984 Super Bowl XVIII ad, which shows woman running from conformity and depicted IBM as the Big Brother from George Orwell's book, 1984.  Two days after the ad, the Macintosh 128k shipped for $2,495. The price had jumped because Scully wanted enough money to fund a marketing campaign. It shipped late, and the 128k of memory was a bit underpowered, but it was a success. Many of the concepts such as a System and Finder, persist to this day. It came with MacWrite and MacPaint and some of the other Lisa products were soon to follow, now as MacProject and MacTerminal. But the first killer app for the Mac was Microsoft Word, which was the first version of Word ever shipped.  Every machine came with a mouse. The machines came with a cassette that featured a guided tour of the new computer. You could write programs in MacBASIC and my second language, MacPascal.  They hit the initial sales numbers despite the higher price. But over time that bit them on sluggish sales. Despite the early success, the sales were declining. Yet the team forged on. They introduced the Apple LaserWriter at a whopping $7,000. This was a laser printer that was based on the Canon 300 dpi engine. Burrell Smith designed a board and newcomer Adobe knew laser printers, given that the founders were Xerox alumni. They added postscript, which had initially been thought up while working with Ivan Sutherland and then implemented at PARC, to make for perfect printing at the time. The sluggish sales caused internal issues. There's a hangover  when we do something great. First there were the famous episodes between Jobs, Scully, and the board of directors at Apple. Scully seems to have been portrayed by many to be either a villain or a court jester of sorts in the story of Steve Jobs. Across my research, which began with books and notes and expanded to include a number of interviews, I've found Scully to have been admirable in the face of what many might consider a petulant child. But they all knew a brilliant one.  But amidst Apple's first quarterly loss, Scully and Jobs had a falling out. Jobs tried to lead an insurrection and ultimately resigned. Wozniak had left Apple already, pointing out that the Apple II was still 70% of the revenues of the company. But the Mac was clearly the future.  They had reached a turning point in the history of computers. The first mass marketed computer featuring a GUI and a mouse came and went. And so many others were in development that a red ocean was forming. Microsoft released Windows 1.0 in 1985. Acorn, Amiga, IBM, and others were in rapid development as well.  I can still remember the first time I sat down at a Mac. I'd used the Apple IIs in school and we got a lab of Macs. It was amazing. I could open a file, change the font size and print a big poster. I could type up my dad's lyrics and print them. I could play SimCity. It was a work of art. And so it was signed by the artists that brought it to us: Peggy Alexio, Colette Askeland, Bill Atkinson, Steve Balog, Bob Belleville, Mike Boich, Bill Bull, Matt Carter, Berry Cash, Debi Coleman, George Crow, Donn Denman, Christopher Espinosa, Bill Fernandez, Martin Haeberli, Andy Hertzfeld, Joanna Hoffman, Rod Holt, Bruce Horn, Hap Horn, Brian Howard, Steve Jobs, Larry Kenyon, Patti King, Daniel Kottke, Angeline Lo, Ivan Mach, Jerrold Manock, Mary Ellen McCammon, Vicki Milledge, Mike Murray, Ron Nicholson Jr., Terry Oyama, Benjamin Pang, Jef Raskin, Ed Riddle, Brian Robertson, Dave Roots, Patricia Sharp, Burrell Smith, Bryan Stearns, Lynn Takahashi, Guy "Bud" Tribble, Randy Wigginton, Linda Wilkin, Steve Wozniak, Pamela Wyman and Laszlo Zidek. Steve Jobs left to found NeXT. Some, like George Crow, Joanna Hoffman, and Susan Care, went with him. Bud Tribble would become a co-founder of NeXT and then the Vice President of Software Technology after Apple purchased NeXT. Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld would go on to co-found General Magic and usher in the era of mobility. One of the best teams ever assembled slowly dwindled away. And the oncoming dominance of Windows in the market took its toll. It seems like every company has a “lost decade.” Some like Digital Equipment don't recover from it. Others, like Microsoft and IBM (who has arguably had a few), emerge as different companies altogether. Apple seemed to go dormant after Steve Jobs left. They had changed the world with the Mac. They put swagger and an eye for design into computing. But in the next episode we'll look at that long hangover, where they were left by the end of it, and how they emerged to become to change the world yet again.  In the meantime, Walter Isaacson weaves together this story about as well as anyone in his book Jobs. Steven Levy brilliantly tells it in his book Insanely Great. Andy Hertzfeld gives some of his stories at folklore.org. And countless other books, documentaries, podcasts, blog posts, and articles cover various aspects as well. The reason it's gotten so much attention is that where the Apple II was the watershed moment to introduce the personal computer to the mass market, the Macintosh was that moment for the graphical user interface.

Interview with Jim Tunney Jim is a former American football official in the National Football League (NFL) from 1960 to 1990. In his 31 years as an NFL official, Tunney received a record 29 post-season assignments, including ten Championship games and Super Bowls VI, XI, and XII and named as an alternate in Super Bowl XVIII. He is still the only referee who has worked consecutive Super Bowls, and likely will be the only one to do so. Learn more at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Tunney_(American_football) https://jimtunney.com/

The Raiders all-time sack leader, and Super Bowl XVIII champion, Greg Townsend talks with host Scott Gulbransen and co-host Your Boy Q Myers about his Super Bowl experience in 1984 with the Los Angeles Raiders. Townsend talks about the importance of veterans in his development and the Raiders Super Bowl run. Townsend tells some great stories about his teammates and makes his pick for Super Bowl LV.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All-time Raiders sack leader Greg Townsend talks Super Bowl XVIII, Tom Flores, and what the current team's defense needs to know. Plus: we continue the conversation about why the trade talk about Derek Carr is a compliment to the QB and why the trade probably will not happen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're turning over the podcast for a special occasion and a special episode. Broadcasting legend Lesley Visser takes the reins from Will Brinson and welcomes on Hall of Famer and Super Bowl hero Marcus Allen for a lengthy chat on one of the most famous runs in football history. Marcus recalls the vivid details of that "17 Bob Trey 0" call that cemented his place in Super Bowl folklore. He continues to discuss the personalities on that Raiders team, the best defenders he ever matched up against and how the game has changed over the years. Allen also addresses the ugly end to his Raiders tenure but expresses that he doesn't hold a grudge against Al Davis or the organization. We hear about his time in Kansas City and his thoughts on Super Bowl LV. Thanks to Lesley and Marcus for this addition to the Pick Six feed! *Note: This episode was recorded Friday, January 29. 'Pick Six' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  You can listen to Pick Six on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Pick Six NFL podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Pick Six NFL podcast." Follow the Pick Six team on Twitter: @picksixpod, @willbrinson, @ryanwilsonCBS, @johnbreech, @E_DeBerardinis Visit the Pick Six YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/picksix Check out the Pick Six Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/picksixpod/?hl=en Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/758548147935545/ For more NFL coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is Super Bowl week but it sure doesn't feel like it. Riggo talks about peak performance and Brady's ability to sustain it for so long and how the loss to the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XVIII still stings.

Russillo points out some NBA teams who have a clear identity (8:00) before talking with Super Bowl champion Howie Long about the Chiefs-Buccaneers Super Bowl, his early days with the Raiders, stories from his career, winning Super Bowl XVIII, and more (22:00). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:09:00).

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Here are some of the headlines we hit on in this episode: Super Bowl XVIII and Super Bowl XXIII as well as the 1953 NFL Draft and more... Come join us at the https://pigskindispatch.com/ (Pigskin Dispatch website) to see even more Positive football news! Sign up to get daily football history headlines in your email inbox @ https://pigskindispatch.com/home/Email-subscriber (Email-subscriber) We also feature great music by Mike and Gene Monroe along with Jason Neff & great graphics from time to time from the folks at http://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/GUD/controller/controller.php?action=main (Gridiron-Uniform Database). Want more Sports History delivered to your ears, come see this podcast and many more at the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters of Sports' Yesteryear!) We would like to thank the https://footballfoundation.org/ (National Football Foundation), https://www.profootballhof.com/players/ (Pro Football Hall of Fame), https://www.onthisday.com/ (On this day.com) and https://www.pro-football-reference.com/ (Pro Football Reference) Websites for the information shared with you today. Support this podcast

Work On What Service Looks Like In Your Life! This week, RAY LEWIS discusses what it means to live a life of service, and the importance of helping others in the “Thought Of The Day”. Plus, Ray chats with fellow Pro Football Hall Of Famer - MARCUS ALLEN! (11:11) Ray & Marcus go down memory lane; discussing his MVP year in ’85, Super Bowl XVIII, how he ended up with No. 32, early influences, the moment he transitioned to RB for good, how he manifested his reality thru mentality, the power of a positive attitude, how he dominated on the gridiron for 16 years, and Marcus plays “Suga Association”! (01:02:45)

When the Oakland Raiders went up 28-9 early in the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII, viewers expected to see a replay, but instead—the screen went black. Some ominous music then greeted them with the black-and-white image of a marching army of drones. What followed was one of the most iconic ads in history that would change the way marketing and the Super Bowl would forever be approached.  Show notes: 1984

With the wrestling world changing this week, the show goes back 35 years to the January 28, 1984 edition of WWF Championship Wrestling as a new world champion is crowned! - Hulk Hogan’s title win over the Iron Sheik marks the start of a new era - Sheiky deals with an untimely boner - Paul Orndorff goes to a forbidden place talking about Hulk Hogan - Roddy Piper launches Piper’s Pit at the expense of Victory Corner - How The Hammer overlapped with his time in JCP - How are telegrams being sent to the announcer’s desk in Allentown? - Mr. Fuji’s refusal to tag with a different partner on this set of tapings - Who was the best babyface IC champion of the 1980s? - Tony Atlas vows to get “kinky” - Just how boring can B. Brian Blair be? Plus: - A recap of a week in Alaska - The importance of local promos - Enjoying how Roddy Piper says the name “Tony Atlas” - Hulk Hogan’s surprising tag team partner in New Japan from early ‘84 - Speculating on a movie career for Robert DeBord - Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 5! - Looking at some of the Super Bowl XVIII commercials from January 1984 Email: Greetingsfromallentown@gmail.com Twitter: @GFAllentownPod Facebook.com/GreetingsFromAllentown

With the wrestling world changing this week, the show goes back 35 years to the January 28, 1984 edition of WWF Championship Wrestling as a new world champion is crowned! - Hulk Hogan’s title win over the Iron Sheik marks the start of a new era - Sheiky deals with an untimely boner - Paul Orndorff goes to a forbidden place talking about Hulk Hogan - Roddy Piper launches Piper’s Pit at the expense of Victory Corner - How The Hammer overlapped with his time in JCP - How are telegrams being sent to the announcer’s desk in Allentown? - Mr. Fuji’s refusal to tag with a different partner on this set of tapings - Who was the best babyface IC champion of the 1980s? - Tony Atlas vows to get “kinky” - Just how boring can B. Brian Blair be? Plus: - A recap of a week in Alaska - The importance of local promos - Enjoying how Roddy Piper says the name “Tony Atlas” - Hulk Hogan’s surprising tag team partner in New Japan from early ‘84 - Speculating on a movie career for Robert DeBord - Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 5! - Looking at some of the Super Bowl XVIII commercials from January 1984 Email: Greetingsfromallentown@gmail.com Twitter: @GFAllentownPod Facebook.com/GreetingsFromAllentown

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In the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII, Apple ran a commercial that changed the Super Bowl and Apple forever. But it almost never aired. Featuring original interviews with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, former CEO John Sculley, and the ad's creators, this is the story of Steve Jobs vs the board, a scary casting call involving actual skinheads and a highly skilled discus thrower, plus a legacy that defined Apple and its users for decades.Read more at www.businessinsider.com/1984

Happy Australia Day/ Invasion day or just plain hi, how are you today; whatever floats your boat these days. Hopefully everyone is taking care of themselves in this extra hot summer and keeping hydrated. Whoever it was that invited Diablo or whoever please send them home. Happy 20th birthday to Super Smash Bros, it seemed like 20 years at the E3 release for the latest installment of fun, but no, the game with the same head developer is 20, well done. We meander down the path of other games that have stood the test of time, either in the same original format of reincarnated into newer and slightly different formats. Then DJ brings us some news about the Oscar nominations, and Black Panther is on it, I know, yay, go Marvel. DJ is happy about that, and congratulations on a super hero movie finally getting a nomination. Hollywood is starting to recognise Nerds are a large market share finally. There are some interesting names on the list, including Green Book, a film worth checking out. Then Buck brings us a book entitled ‘Gods and Robots’ that looks at the historical accounts of robots and automatons throughout civilisation in many different forms. He is like a kid in a candy shop he is so excited. We also have the regular shout outs and events of interest, including a special birthday for Selma and Patty, who? Listen and find out. Thanks as always for your continued listening and support, take care of yourselves and look out for each other, and drink heaps of water.EPISODE NOTES:Super Smash brother turns 20- https://twitter.com/Sora_Sakurai/status/1087140521020088320/- https://www.videogamer.com/news/super-smash-bros-turns-20-todayOscar Nominations 2019- https://variety.com/2019/film/news/oscar-nominations-2019-list-1203112405/Gods and Robots- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/our-fascination-robots-goes-all-way-back-antiquityGames currently playingProfessor– Super Smash Brother Ultimate - https://www.smashbros.com/en_AU/Buck– Elder Scrolls Online - https://store.steampowered.com/app/306130/The_Elder_Scrolls_Online/DJ– Darksiders 3 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/606280/Darksiders_III/Other topics discussedPong (1972 Game)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PongE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982 Game)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game)881 E.T cartridges buried- https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/08/881-e-t-cartridges-buried-in-new-mexico-desert-sell-for-107930-15/Pac Man (1980 Game)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-ManAsteroids (1979 Game)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_(video_game)Spacewar (1962 Game)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!Frogger (1981 Game)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FroggerCall of Duty (first-person shooter video game franchise)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_DutyMaster hand (Smash Brothers boss)- https://supersmashbros.fandom.com/wiki/Master_HandStreet Fighter (fighting video game franchise)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_FighterDouble Dragon (1987 Game)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Dragon_(video_game)Double Dragon 4 (2017 Game)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Dragon_IVThe Day of the Triffids (1951 Novel)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_TriffidsOscar nomination firsts- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-23/oscar-nominations-netflix-roma-marvel-black-panther-historic/10738056- https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/oscar-nominees-2019-first-superhero.htmlSeasame Street Lawsuit against Happytime Murders’ Lawsuit- http://fortune.com/2018/05/31/the-happytime-murders-movie-lawsuit/Lady Gaga quoting Bradley Cooper when winning an award- https://www.thehits.co.nz/spy/lady-gaga-uses-the-exact-same-same-quote-about-bradley-cooper-in-every-a-star-is-born-interview-and-it-is-hilarious/Neil Patrick Harris- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Patrick_HarrisLady Gaga wins Golden Globes for best actress in American Horror Story- https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/lady-gaga-golden-globe-winner-american-horror-story-hotel-1201676564/Halle Berry wins Oscar for Best Actress- https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/25/movies/beautiful-mind-wins-best-actress-goes-to-halle-berry.htmlMonster’s Ball- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%27s_BallOscar awards shake up- https://www.nme.com/news/change-is-coming-oscars-announce-new-awards-for-next-years-ceremony-2364546- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/21/oscars-awards-diversity-crisis-african-americanAnimatronio (Futurama character)- https://theinfosphere.org/AnimatronioGods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology at Amazon- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691183511/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=sciencenews06-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0691183511&linkId=f7c8730b7bc5b59c66bfc44d81571bddAdrienne Mayor (Author)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_MayorSuper Smash Brothers trophy option- https://www.ssbwiki.com/trophyFallout 76 is not going free to play- https://www.pcgamer.com/au/fallout-76-is-not-going-free-to-play-in-case-you-were-wondering/Phantom Zone (DC Comics)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_ZoneThe Cell (2000 Movie)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_CellPasteurization process- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PasteurizationMilkmaids and the Smallpox Vaccine- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/02/01/582370199/whats-the-real-story-about-the-milkmaid-and-the-smallpox-vaccineShoutouts23 Jan 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman M.D - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-woman-m-d23 Jan 1922 – Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to receive insulin injections as treatment for diabetes - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/insulin-injection-aids-diabetic-patient20 Jan 2019 - Masazo Nonaka, the world's oldest man, dies aged 113 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-21/masazo-nonaka-worlds-oldest-man-dies/10730738Famous Birthdays19 Jan 1736 – James Watt, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. He developed the concept of horsepower, and the SI unit of power, the watt, was named after him, born in Greenock, Renfrewshire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt19 Jan 1809 -Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic (The Pit and the Pendulum) considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre (Murders in the Rue Morgue), born in Boston, Massachusetts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_PoeDec 1854 or Jun 1855 – Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer. One of the last bushrangers, and by far the most famous, he is best known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police, born in Beveridge, Colony of Victoria - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly22 Jan 1934 – Bill Bixby, American actor (The Incredible Hulk, My Favourite Martian & The Magician) director, producer, and frequent game-show panellist, born in San Francisco, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bixby23 Jan 1950 – Richard Dean Anderson, American actor (McGuyver & Stargate franchise) and producer, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dean_Anderson23 Jan 1951 - Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III aka Sully, American retired airline captain who, on January 15, 2009, landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River off Manhattan after both engines were disabled by a bird strike; all 155 persons aboard survived, born in Denison, Texas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesley_Sullenberger22 Jan 1940 – Sir John Hurt, English actor (Dr Who, V for Vendetta, Hellboy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Harry Potter film series) his screen and stage career spanned more than 50 years, born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_HurtEvents of Interest22 Jan 1987 - Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Budd_Dwyer23 Jan 1957 - Toy Company Wham-O produces the first Frisbees - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/toy-company-wham-o-produces-first-frisbees22 Jan 1984 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.- https://www.businessinsider.com.au/apple-super-bowl-retrospective-2014-1?r=US&IR=T- https://www.upi.com/Iconic-Super-Bowl-ad-35-years-ago-sparked-Apples-rise-to-a-1T-company/2381548117342/IntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comTwitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rss

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Reusse talks the 1983 Los Angeles Raiders, and a fun fact about their Super Bowl XVIII win over Washington.

Reusse takes it back to Super Bowl XVIII and what he believes is one of the worst play calls in Super Bowl history.

Today's Guest: Singer John Denver.   Order 'John Denver's Greatest Hits,' available from Amazon.com by clicking the CD cover above In the years that I was a pop music critic for the St. Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune back in the mid-1980s, one of the best parts of the job was interviewing musicians by phone before they came to town. I always liked the conversation, the give-and-take, the challenge of engaging talented men and women who talked all day long with reporters—and no doubt hated most of it. At the end of almost every interview, the musician would invite the critic to come backstage after their upcoming show and say “Hello.” I almost never did that because I knew it was more a pleasantry than a sincere invitation. But when John Denver said to come around, I actually followed through. It was January 21, 1984, the weekend of Super Bowl XVIII in Tampa, and John was performing at the Bayfront Center Arena in St. Petersburg as part of the festivities. My mother was in town visiting that week and I bought tickets to take her to see Denver, as well as Frank Sinatra and Luciano Pavarotti. I thought it would be a treat for her to go backstage and meet Denver, so that’s what we did. Denver greeted her by her first name: “Phyllis! It’s so nice to meet you!” And told her what a nice story her son wrote about him. He even posed for a photo. Of course, that was actually the second backstage visit I arranged for my Mom over the years. The first was in 1975, when I bought tickets for her and my dad to see “God’s Favorite” on Broadway, starring Charles Nelson Reilly, who went to high school with my father back in Hartford. But that’s a story for another day. I hope you’ll enjoy this never-before-heard Mr. Media “Lost Tapes” rare John Denver interview, recorded on January 13, 1984. John Denver Website • Twitter • MySpace • YouTube • Wikipedia • Facebook • Windstar Foundation • Order John Denver's Greatest Hits CD from Amazon.com Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom by Ritch Shydner. Order your copy today by clicking on the book cover above!   The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!

Note: This episode of the podcast was taped prior to Super Bowl 50. In preparation for Super Bowl 50, NFL legends Boomer Esiason and Howie Long stopped by the podcast for a special roundtable discussion. Boomer and Howie share their experiences from playing in the big game. You'll hear an absolutely classic story from Howie about why he took a cab, then walked, to Super Bowl XVIII. Enjoy the show, and don't forget to follow us on Twitter (@simmsandlefkoe).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NFL Hall of Famer, Marcus Allen sat down with us for a very special episode on the day the Las Vegas Raiders played their first home game to no fans at Allegiant Stadium.   His career accomplishments speak for themselves, this guy was a flat out beast on the football field: Heisman Trophy Winner National Champion NFL Rookie of the Year NFL MVP SUPER BOWL MVP SUPER BOWL Champion 6X Pro Bowl   Marcus shared an unbelievable story about what shocking thing happened to him when he arrived at the stadium to play in Super Bowl XVIII.   Enjoy guys!